Originally published on the online journal Vitruvius, this text advocates the participation of architects in property development and describes an experiment developed in discipline Estudio V at Unileste-MG, taught by Wellington Cançado and Carlos Teixeira. It was a good opportunity to contrast the limitations and greed in civil construction with the freedom of academic speculation. […]

The newest policy of intervention in the slums of Rio de Janeiro: the building of a three metre high wall to “avoid their expansion”. Wellington Cançado, architect and co-organizer of the book Collateral Spaces (see post Collateral Spaces – bilingual website above), comments on the piece of news. The Wall Wellington Cançado “Rio begins the […]